[quote by=Rowdy link=Blah.pl?b=songs,m=1089392567,s=18 date=1089579475]I imagine that the solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" would be a hard one......and the backwards one in "I'm Only Sleeping" could be a bit weird.....not sure what the hardest base parts are...[/quote]

what album is im only sleeping found. And yeah i agree while my guitar gently weeps is a cool/hard guitar song.

How about The Abbey Rd. Medley? Especially when the "And In the end" section is a semi-tone down from the rest of the track (Spliced on Edit). Thus giving guitarists a very hard time learning those final historic licks!

Love, Love, Love for all the string arrangements and lack of guitar. That's tough.You'd need to be a bloody barber shop septet at least to recreate "Because" off Abbey Rd.

I could bore on and on about different songs with effects. Depends on how faithful you were learning the songs.

In terms of just plain buskers guitar, you'll be surprised at how hard some of the earlier ones really are! Thanks to George Martins diminished sixths and sevenths they all can be a handful to the learning guitarist.

Penny Lane would be tough. Norwegian Wood is done by every cover band that i've ever seen. Put the capo on the guitar and go. The guitar solo on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' doesnt sound hard at all, but i'm not a guitar player and I have heard the song played out before.

I know for us, its a tie between Walrus and Strawberry Fields. We never really nailed them but got pretty close. Of course, we have a much stronger string section now then we did for the MMT album so maybe one day we'll get to take a crack at them again.

I exclude Revolution 9 because I don't consider it a song but instead more a soundscape. Therefore, for our White Album performance I put together a short version of my own using a similar piano intro and the same chant ending but the middle is everything from the Tardis materializing to roosters.

I saw that someone mentioned Tomorrow Never Knows and that song is the only one where we break form and just turn it into a jam and let it go wherever it takes us. I play my trombone on that one and improve around using some different effects and just have a good time. You can't always play everything note for note.

Its kind of funny though where our mistakes pop up. We'll typically get all the hard stuff but then someone will mess up a change in While My Guitar Gently Weeps since its fairly easy just monotonous.

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Definitely a tricky rhythm, one day I'll nail the tambourine part in the middle but the tuba swap kind of distracts me, heh.

I know what you mean about the "feel changes", we really enjoyed doing I Want You(Heavy) for some previous shows and get to work it up again since we're doing Abbey Road next year.

Tonight we participated in the local Christmas charity concert that is "The 12 Bands of Christmas". Nothing difficult but our short 20 minute set was Sgt. Peppers Intro into With a Little Help from my Friends, Birthday (well, we're celebrating JC's aren't we?) Guitar Weeps, Christmas Time is Here Again and My Sweet Lord complete with southern black church choir singing in the aisles for the Hallelujah. It got a full standing house, totally unexpected.

Did I mention that I'm not even a fan of the Beatles? I'm a metal and heavy rock guy. However, being that I'm friends with all these guys and had done Darkside of the Moon with them that when they asked I didn't hesitate? That probably makes me an oddity.

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I'm told by a drummer friend of mine that the time changes in Yer Blues are very tough on tub thumpers. And Rain can't be easy either.

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Did I mention that I'm not even a fan of the Beatles? I'm a metal and heavy rock guy. However, being that I'm friends with all these guys and had done Darkside of the Moon with them that when they asked I didn't hesitate? That probably makes me an oddity.

BlueMeanie, I'll post our Yer Blues soon to see what you think. We have Rain worked up in our rotation and Tim has a Hofner reissue "Beatle Bass" that sounds great. I'll have to dig through my recordings and see if I have it somewhere. (Well, as long as he doesn't play too hard. The electronics in it are far from stellar and easily fart out) And yes, I dig Beatallica. Brilliant.

Apple, much thanks on the compliment. While I'm not a Beatles fan, I do really dig Glass Onion along with the stranger or darker stuff like Helter Skelter, I Want You, and Walrus. Savoy Truffle takes me back to high school jazz band with the standard walking bass line. The Pink Floyd gig was incredible PLUS we did it in full quadraphonic sound. The look on people's faces when sounds came out from behind them was priceless. I have heard of the Dub Side of the Moon but haven't listened to it yet. I'll add that to my list. Too bad you're across the pond, would love to have you stand in sometime.

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